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Future entrepreneurs celebrate Market Day at Thomasville Heights

talkupaps3 Dec 20130

Thomasville Heights’ entrepreneurs of the future received the opportunity to put their innovation and expertise to work by participating in Market Day at Thomasville Heights Elementary School. Market Day was a culminating event for the fifth grade economics curriculum. As a part of the curriculum, fifth grade students were exposed to a wealth of information including real-world economic […]

Celebrating Grandparents in “Grand” Style

talkupaps13 Sep 20130

Many schools celebrated National Grandparents Day on Friday, September 6th. Marian McQuade, a housewife in West Virginia, worked to recognize Grandparents Day in the 1970s. She hoped to persuade grandchildren to cherish the wisdom and heritage their grandparents could provide. In 1978, President Jimmy Carter proclaimed that National Grandparents Day would be celebrated annually on […]